Yehuda Amichai

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A Man In His Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FDGHIJK LDI

A man doesn't have time in his lifeA
to have time for everythingB
He doesn't have seasons enough to haveC
a season for every purpose EcclesiastesD
Was wrong about thatE
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A man needs to love and to hate at the same momentF
to laugh and cry with the same eyesD
with the same hands to throw stones and to gather themG
to make love in war and war in loveH
And to hate and forgive and remember and forgetI
to arrange and confuse to eat and to digest what historyJ
takes years and years to doK
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A man doesn't have timeL
When he loses he seeks when he findsD
he forgets when he forgets he loves when he loves he begins to forgetI

Yehuda Amichai



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